unfair share

image: canva #unfair_share This life – a privilegeTo waste it – a sacrilegeleast that’s what I been told;know when to flourish your cardsand know when to foldBut tell me thisThey say Everyone gets their fair shareThey say He knowsthe way of balanceWhy, then, is it sothat a cluster of a-holes live onwhile the sweet ones pass…

Random Acts Of Opinion – John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)

You can only stuff so many bullets into the clip, OpinionNerds. There’s a sort of natural evolution or escalation when it comes to any series that runs for a while. No matter what the original intent or approach many of them, rightly or wrongly, continue to hone in on and exaggerate the elements that get…

I Am You, I Am Him

image: “shattered glass” @ Canva Note: First posted on Instagram, hence it’s all in images.

Corporate (Un)Culture

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The email from the HR Business Partner came on a Friday morning. She wanted to meet Rajat to discuss something important. Rajat’s manager, Lokesh, hadn’t mentioned anything. So he was curious what it could be about. ‘Is it about the new HR Information System being implemented?’ Rajat wondered since he represented his division in that project.

The meeting was set for the afternoon. With a notepad and pen in his hand, Rajat walked up to the small meeting room at the other end of the floor and casually opened the door. As soon as he looked inside, he froze. Seated within were the HRBP, Lokesh, Head – IT, and Head – Ethics & Compliance—everyone looking up at him grimly. Lokesh had a laptop in front of him. Rajat’s body went cold like blood had drained out of it. ‘Am I being fired? What did I do? Have I offended someone?…

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Random Acts of Opinion – Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

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Turning and burning By M.Schinke

Tom Cruise may be getting close to hanging it up; but not today, OpinionNerds.

One of the most satisfying aspects about movies is how they are able to operate on so many levels at once. They can entertain and inform, move and inspire, comfort and challenge. Any filmmaker can pull from any or all of these elements, layering them together into a sumptuous, sensual ambrosia of storytelling that will impact different people in different ways. But all of that relies on choices made by people about what they want to emphasize and what they want the audience to come away with. Given the choice, some filmmakers will defer to a certain kind of entertainment value over other storytelling considerations. There is certainly nothing wrong with this approach, but it is worth questioning at what point the desire to please the audience and have them leaving…

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[Valentine’s Special] HER.

Long before any of them, there was you. There was you, and how.

That Girl, Three Miles from Home — a short story by Devansh M. Desai

[3.8K words, unedited] Note from the writer: Because this short story was posted on Facebook first on May 18, the tone of the story was lightened considerably in order to reach a wider audience. The original story has a brief mention at the end. Her car sputtered to a stop just as they were crossing…

A Noob’s Diary, 5.02.Y01

Hi there. I am…oh, wait, sorry, I don’t know who I am or was, actually. I do have a few things figured, but not all of it yet. You see, a couple of days ago, I was found by this…fisherman…at some point a few dozen miles from the coast of this …town whose name I…

Book Review #52: When Opposites Meet, by Sachin Garg

Book name: When Opposites Meet Author: Sachin Garg Published by: Harlequin (an imprint of HarperCollins) Pages: 196 Genre: Fiction, Romance MRP: ₹199/- -- WHAT HAPPENS WHEN OPPOSITES MEET? When two completely different people find themselves drawn to each other? Can they really find happiness together? Can wheelchair-bound Ritwika find a chord that connects her to…

5.2 Miles

Here's a piece of short fanfic that I wrote weeks ago. Completely raw and unedited (I haven't touched it after writing; just posted it on my page on Facebook and shared it in a readers-writers group). If you guys like it, I'll plot a proper story out of this. *** It was calmer that day…

Book Review #49: Kansa (Killer Trilogy #1), by Prassant Kevin

Book name: Kansa (Professor Black, Killer Trilogy #1) Author: Prassant Kevin Published by: Inked Company Pages: 398 Genre: Fiction, Thriller MRP: Rs 244/- -- NOTE: I received a copy of this book from the author in exchange of an honest review and I promise to be completely honest (blunt, if required) in my review of…

Book Review #51: THARKI, by Kunal Marathe

Book name: THARKI – In the Game of Love You either Play or Get Played Author: Kunal Marathe Published by: Legendary Books India Pages: 192 Genre: Fiction, Romance MRP: Rs 150/- -- Blurb: ONCE UPON A TIME I WAS THE PERFECT MARRIAGE MATERIAL Romantic as Romeo and loyal as a dog—I was everything a woman…

Book Review #48: The Wrong Turn, by Sanjay Chopra and Namita Roy Ghose

Book name: The Wrong Turn Author(s): Sanjay Chopra, Namita Roy Ghose Published by: Om Books International Pages: 480 Genre: Fiction, Historical War Thriller MRP: Rs. 295 /- -- Blurb: 1944, Kohima – a small, sleepy town in northeast India. Subhash Chandra Bose and his Indian National Army (INA) along with the Japanese, are on the…

Book Review #47: Dying to Live, by Monisha K. Gumber

Book name: Dying to Live Author: Monisha K. Gumber Published by: Frog Books (an imprint of Leadstart Corp.) Pages: 227 Genre: Fiction, Motivational Teen Fiction MRP: ₹245 -- Blurb: When nothing matters anymore… Megha, a young super-achiever with a perfect life has all that is needed to be happy. After all why wouldn’t she? A…

Book Review #46: Majid’s Diary, by Ghazala Rizvi

Book name: Majid’s Diary Author: Ghazala Rizvi Published by: Notionpress, Inc Pages: 246 Genre: Fiction, Thriller MRP: ₹245 -- Blurb: A death leads Jamal and Dev on a quest for truth and unravels a mystery connecting the by-lanes of Hyderabad to the Gomal Valley in the Pak-Afghan border. In its wake, Jamal and Dev leave…